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War crimes galore!
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The Pentagon’s Secret Scream Sonic devices that can inflict pain—or even permanent deafness—are being deployed. By William M. Arkin William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion.
SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. - Marines arriving in Iraq this month as part of a massive troop rotation will bring with them a high-tech weapon never before used in combat - or in peacekeeping. The device is a (…)

Organized Opposition Is Small, but Some See It as Historic
By Paula Span Washington Post Staff Writer
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — On the night last month he learned that his son had died in Iraq, Richard Dvorin couldn’t sleep. He lay in bed, "thinking and thinking and thinking," got up at 4 a.m., made a pot of coffee. Then he sat down at the kitchen table and wrote a letter to the president.
When the invasion of Iraq began, Dvorin — a 61-year-old Air Force veteran and a retired cop — (…)

Labor’s Punk Songman
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0410/robbins.php
Kirk Kelly: Musician, songwriter, organizer
American labor has always had its troubadours, most of them writing and singing away in the same obscurity as the working people they’ve championed. Legendary songwriter and organizer Joe Hill was an itinerant laborer in the early 1900s when he turned an otherwise harmless ditty about an engineer named Casey Jones into a pro-union anthem, and transformed the pious "Sweet Bye (…)

The horrible terrorist attacks of the morning of March 11 in Madrid have shocked the whole world, which is expressing its condemnation through different means, organizations and institutions. The global antiwar movement should not only condemn this new terrorist attack but should take a clear stand in general against this terrorist escalation in any place of the world.
During the last months of 2003 after the cruel attack in Istanbul, we have warned about this escalation of terrorist (…)

The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
A VISION
This Agenda for Peace and Justice is grounded in a vision of a world of genuine international cooperation; just humane laws based upon unqualified respect for the rights and dignity of every human being; multiracial unity free of every form of discrimination; and freedom from want where everyone is entitled to work at a living wage and has full access to education, health care, housing, and democratic (…)

By David Bacon - submitted to portside
[moderator’s note see also: Lessons from the Picket
Line By Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele, AlterNet;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/5578]
LOS ANGELES, CA (3/4/04) - The southern California grocery strikers are true working-class heroes. Seventy thousand held fast to their strike over four and a half months, a remarkable achievement in the current "jobless recovery." Many had to find other jobs to make mortgage, rent or car (…)

by Tom Hayden
The Nation - article Posted March 4, 2004
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040322&s=hayden I was digging into the batter’s box one Saturday morning in San Pedro a couple of years ago when the catcher behind me muttered, "I’m a Vietnam vet, and I’ve been waiting for twenty years to say you should be dead or in jail for being a traitor." The umpire said nothing. I flied out to center. Later we talked. Then we became friends.
It turned out that his hatred was (…)

By Noam Chomsky
ZNet Commentary - March 9, 2004
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5115&sectionID=11 Those who have any concern for Haiti will naturally want to understand how its most recent tragedy has been unfolding. And for those who have had the privilege of any contact with the people of this tortured land, it is not just natural but inescapable. Nevertheless, we make a serious error if we focus too narrowly on the events of the recent past, or even on Haiti (…)

By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Christian Science Monitor - March 08, 2004
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0308/p09s02-cogn.html
NEW YORK - If the circumstances weren’t so calamitous, the US-orchestrated removal of former President Jean- Bertrand Aristide from Haiti would be farcical. According to Mr. Aristide, US officials in Port-au- Prince told him that rebels were on the way to the presidential residence and that he and his family were unlikely to survive unless they immediately boarded an (…)

TAKE ACTION to defend free speech rights on March 20! At the end of this email there is a link to an easy-to-use system that allows you to send a customized message to the New York City Mayor and City Council. See below for details.
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Having been compelled to grant permits for the rally and mass march in the heart of midtown Manhattan on Saturday, March 20 calling for an End to Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti and Everywhere, the New York City police (…)